ps -ef output

[paula hawk_1]

Can someone tell me what the fourth field represents when you do the "ps -ef | grep XX" command?

thanks..

[Dario_1 · Accepted solution]

Paula:

Check this from ps man page:

cpu Processor utilization for scheduling. The default
heading for this column is C.

Regards,

DR

[Robert Gamble]

As per the man page, the fourth column is which CPU the process is executing.

If you pipe your to 'more', you will see the headers on the first line.

Hope this helps!

[Pete Randall]

The man page describes it as "cpu" - presumable the cpu the process is running on in a multi-processor installation?


Pete

[Dietmar Konermann]

man ps:

cpu
Processor utilization for scheduling. The default heading for this column is C.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

-f option shows these columns

user, pid, ppid, cpu,stime,tty,time and args

fourth field is cpu time

-USA..

[S.K. Chan]

Man pages tells you that but didn't quite explain it well enough. That column represents the CPU usage of a particular process. Most of the time you'll see "0". This number will increase each time a process take over the CPU cycle. And if I'm not mistaken the C value has a max limit to it, somewhere in the region of of 100, I can;t remember.

[Andreas Schmitz_1]

Hi Paula,

the the man page for ps:

Output format options:

-f show columns user, pid, ppid, cpu, stime, tty, time, and args, in that order.

cpu means Processor utilization for scheduling. The default heading for this column is C.

Hope is helpful for you.
Br, Andreas

[S.K. Chan]

Man pages tells you that but didn't quite explain it well enough. That column represents the CPU usage of a particular process. Most of the time you'll see "0". This number will increase each time a process take over the CPU cycle. And if I'm not mistaken the C value has a max limit to it, somewhere in the region of of 100, I can;t remember.

[John Meissner]

acording to the the man on 'ps' that I did the columns should be
(using the -f option)
user pid tty cpu stime tty time args

I believe the cpu is the processor utilization for scheduling.

[paula hawk_1]

Thanks everyone!! Have a good weekend.